Pita bread, an Arabic bread

Ingredients needed for 5 Pita bread:

• 200 g of flour
• 100 g of warm water
• 6g of dried baker's yeast
• 1 coffee spoon of honey
• 1 pinched of slat
• 1 spoon of olive oil

How to do the Pita:

• Stir in a ball the yeast, honey and water and wait 10 min
• Add up this mixture to the flour in a big ball and knead the paste during 5 to 10 min until you get a smooth ball
• Let the ball rest for 1 hour in a hot spot (can be in a oven turned off) and cover the big ball
• After 1 hour the paste should have double or triple the volume
• Knead the paste for 1 or 2 min again
• Cut the paste into portion of 70 g
• Use a bakery cook to spread the portion with 3 to 5 mm of thickness
• Let for 5 to 10 min rest the pita breads you mate before baking them
• After these 10 min, take a pan, high heat and bake each pita until it is becoming golden on both faces

Recommendations:

• Pita bread are tasting really good with kafta, hummus or shakshuka (Discover my recipes for them)